TORCH: The Reunion
He was and still is a stranger, uninhabitable and distant like a whisper in a language I don't quite understand.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Victoria Ruiz’s Grandma’s Grocery Board
I’m not a trained musician, but my grandma helped me to become fearless...
Rumpus Original Fiction: Handsome Cab
A warm wash of confidence came over me. You don't really know who you are until you know which car you're following.
Identity Theft
In the past year, the writing process has become, for me, a way to navigate between the present and the past, between what I have access to and what I will never know.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #125: Tyree Daye
"I think if you are really doing the work, you can’t write about America and not explore race and slavery, and that goes for any writer."
Voices on Addiction: What We Forget, What We Remember
I don’t remember when [my brother] ran away; I just remember him being gone more often than not.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #124: Anne Raeff
"I guess that’s true when you write a novel, you end up taking out so much."
TORCH: The American Girl at the Temple
[T]o be a tourist in a foreign country is very different than being a tourist in a foreign country where you are expected to feel you have returned home.
Rumpus Exclusive: “Blue Tears”
On certain nights, if I’m lucky, wisps of the shore begin to glow blue, an unearthly electric color, like someone in the sea has a flashlight and is shining it upward.
Rumpus Original Fiction: The Typhoon is a Hurricane
She tried her best to be clinical, but his dreaming scared her, made her think of ghosts and aswang stealing pieces of her—little bit by little bit.
The House of Fiction Has Many Rooms: Talking with Sigrid Nunez
Sigrid Nunez discusses her seventh novel, The Friend, her fondness for writing about animals, and the ways the literary world has changed.